Thursday, November 23, 2006

Don't get me wrong, Anchorage is fine and dandy but wouldn't it be that much cooler with a name like one of these beauties? I love the sounds of language. Grace, with her junior-high German class interests kept voting for European cities but darn it, Potsdam just doesn't do it for me.

13. Bogota, Colombia. I don't care if it is all about the drugs, it's a great name. You can mess with the accent on different syllables if you want to sound cooler.

12. Tripoli, Libya. And "Mommar Gadhafi" isn't bad either for a Evil Despot monkiker, if he'd just stick to one spelling. Is he still alive anyway?

11. Medellin, Colombia. Okay, so what's with those Colombians? Are all their cities so fun to say?

10. Marrakesh, Morrocco. It could be the Crosby, Stills and Nash song but nonetheless a great name and high on my list.

9. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. No, it's not a revival of Swedish disco it's a city at the bottom of Mount Entoto (a good name too).

8. Timbuktu, Mali. Also spelled Tombouctou--which I think I like even better.

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#6! My dad was stationed there in the Air Force! How cool. Also, I have a sister who lives in Wasilla. She loves Alaska. Her hubby's family have been there forever. Run a big nursery. Thanks for stopping by my Thursday Thirteen. Yah, MG is the only one I've ever known to put olives in potato salad. I was skeptical at first...but it's REALLY good! He wants to impress my family tomorrow. :D Happy Thanksgiving.

My deepest apologies to the Australian contingency who was grossly overlooked. It's due to my utter lack of Australian geography past the basic Melbourn, Tasmania, Queensland, Sydney, Alice, English-root names. Thanks for setting me straight Bec :) If it helps alleviate the pain, I also left off a lot of cool Alaska names--but that's mostly because I did a list of those cities ages ago, you'd have to go to the list index for those. I stand corrected :)

That's funny because just as I posted my return comment I thought, "Oh, there are probably lots of Welsh ones too" but I couldn't possibly give you any examples because Welsh is a complete and utter mystery to me.

And my brother will get on my case for not including any Chinese names, but they're hard for me to come by too. Ones I like anyway.

Great list! Africa certainly has some cool place names. My hubby is Kenyan, and has told me about places I hadn't seen on any maps! Lol! When he speaks swahili, that's even better - there are some swahili words I'll likely never get my tongue around! ;)